Reseeding

What kind of seed mix will u be using?? It makes sense to include a good variety of drought resistant grasses and herbs given the trends of recent springs with sloped land obviously more prone to SM deficits on non peat soils in particular

With a lot of ridges in it I'd be more inclined to plough it. You may find that just discing and leveling it will only pull scraws around the place and you'll end up with ridges back in it very quickly again. Discing and sowing is excellent for fields that are already level but not so much for ridged fields in my opinion.

At the very least consider a power harrow before levelling to break up the sods and give you a better chance of getting things levelled. The link below shows the process I use on my own ground which is very steep but this land was all done ~25-30 years ago so no ridges in it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2bNFKWO4EN3WTTc9VcIfU9qF1bXMQAtn

Not a problem, just keep it dry and off the ground

Thanks. Have some organic red clover that I don’t want to plant so late. Drought followed by such rain messed up the plans .

Did anyone ever try sowing grass seed after silage is cut with fertiliser spreader and roll in or cover with light slurry would it strike do u think ?

Had planned on reseeding a field, there meant to be giving next week good, Friday is to be wet, how long would I want a field sprayed off before the rain? If sprayed Thursday when would be the earliest you could plough it?

Would you have to wait two weeks with a plough?

With the weather would you chance it?

Why couldn’t you plough in this weather? If it took up for a few days would it be ok

Would you still chance spraying off and if you couldn’t plough then disc if the weather didn’t suit the ploughing

Suppose I’m talking from a midlands perspective where we’re still getting a lot of rain coupled with heavy land. About 4 years ago I ploughed in last week of august- weather came poor and ended up sowing 10 May the following year.

im planning to do a bit in a few weeks and ploughing is simply not an option for me. Unless a miraculous change in the weather comes.

I suppose every area is different, which method do you prefer?

How soon after ploughing before you can sow?

Have a field to reseed here myself. Going to rotovate and disc it as many times as necessary and broadcast seed with manure shaker and roll.

It's been a while since I've reseeded so just wondering should I roll before and after shaking seed to give a firm seedbed or just roll after.

Going to throw out a few bags of gran lime out also to help matters.

Any other advice or recommendations appreciated.

That field I was going to plough got extremely poached the past few weeks,the worst I have ever seen it, water lying in holes, does poached ground hold water or would it be the soil? I was told before sometime a pan forms underneath and this can make land wet?hopefully it drys by the end of the week, would it want to be very dry to plough and if so and ploughing wasn’t a opition how dry is it needed to disc?

Sheep

The main thing it's in the ground..everything else is will come right..fertiliser etc

Will need to be dry for ploughing. Maybe a run of the chain Harrow. Or has it dried up since?

No it’s still very wet, it will be the end of the next week before I can go near it, this field has never been so wet, so if I was ploughing next week you reckon get the lime on first

Quad spreader for the fertiliser maybe. With the fine week ahead you may get a chance to roll it towards the middle or end of next week. Happen once where I was following the contractor around the field rolling and picking the stones as i went. Stared to get drizzly as he was finishing. I had to stop and leave the last 2 acres as clay and seed was just starting to stick to the roller. I went back a week later and it was ok to roll. Turned out the finest.

Hard to know but it's going to upset a few lads

A neighbour here last back end had similar ground burnt off, and disc it. Weather beat him to get seed in. Ended up reseeding in early May this year. He burnt of again and has a very clean sward no post emergence spray.

I have 2 acres on wet ground to do, but it can wait now until next year. Hard to get clover established once past the 15th August, it's not burnt off

One it passes the pull test your OK

I'd only roll with a light roller and only in optimum conditions. An empty water roller, just to give the seeds more contact.

It's like that all year with them. Either go again with spray or rely on your post emergence

When is best time to sow this week with the warm weather due to break Sunday?

What fert do you put out after?

What's best ratio for knapsack sprayer for under the electric fence for total destruction?

in a bit of a catch 22. If I go again, I might miss this good spell of weather. If I wait til the post emergence spray, the land may not be travelable.